Originally Posted by
John Little
I should explain. I need the powerpoints to work because I am home-schooling a grand-daughter. If you are into a subject and you come to an animation on, eg, plate tectonics, it is infuriating to find most of it missing or not working.
So our new Mac owner of the OP should be aware that if you run Office for Mac then it very much depends on what you wish to do as to whether it works. Knowing what I know now I would not buy Office for Mac 2008.
However I found a refurbished Dell with XP on Amazon for £115 and it's on the way. In the end it's simpler and the kid also gets to use a machine with Windows; she's always used a Mac up to now. And Windows is the most widely used in Business, Commerce etc rightly or wrongly.
And thank you all for the helpful advice; caused a lot of thought this last couple of days.
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